<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Hopefully I posted this in the right place...</p>
<p>I was wondering if having a parent as a faculty member at a University affects the admissions process.</p>
<p>I have heard from many people that it is a huge advantage, but at the same time have heard that it's meaningless.</p>
<p>I am wondering because my dad is a professor at my #1 choice school where I will be applying Early Decision.</p>
<p>Thnx</p>
<p>I read that it is an advantage in Ivies. I believe I read this in a NY Times article earlier this year. If your #1 choice is a public university, I doubt that it would be an advantage since they go so much by the numbers.</p>
<p>It can be a big push in admissions. And if you get in the tuition is subsidized if not free, which can be transfered to other schools in some cases (students whose parents are profs at Columbia can get free tuition at NYU, etc).</p>
<p>My #1 choice is a selective private university, and if I get accepted they will cover my tuition.</p>
<p>too bad i don't wanna go to cornell =/</p>
<p>Ask your father how the university in question deals with faculty/staff children in admissions. The school may have an explicit policy regarding this situation. At many schools, an effort is made to give strong preference to such applicants as long as they are otherwise qualified for admission. Kids with sub-par grades, test scores, extracurriculars, recommendations, etc. are still unlikely to be accepted, but kids with appropriate credentials will be viewed that much more favorably.</p>
<p>My mother is a research person at Columbia. I get free tuition. The problem with admissions is that as long as you're qualified above a certain pay grade, you get this benefit. And there are thousands, and thousands of people at or above this pay grade. So unless your father is a very reowned professor there, it won't help any (besides tuition which many cover). Additionally, just a tidbit, one of the Nobel runner-ups at Columbia's son wasn't admitted this year--- he was really p.o'ed/</p>
<p>My uncle is the school psycologist at Dartmouth. How much will this help?</p>
<p>I've actually seen this happen at my school. A mother of one of my friends works at USC. He got in with a spring admit and I believe a huge if not entire financial package as well.</p>
<p>Our school posts a congratulatory list of college acceptances every year, and I saw that the student with the USC mom got into schools like UCI and UCR. </p>
<p>We can probably guess that having a parent involved with an institution is much like a legacy factor... times three.</p>
<p>Helped my friend get into MIT.</p>